 CEO Comment
page 1
 Desperately
seeking job
seekers
page 2
 Tell me
about
yourself
page 3
 Industry Visit
Rouse Hill
Transition
page 4
April 2017
CEO Comment
Martin Wren
NOVA Offices
Bowral
Camden
Campbelltown
Caringbah
Engadine
Goulburn
Hurstville
Ingleburn
Katoomba
Penrith
Richmond
Rockdale
Rouse Hill
Springwood
St Marys
Tahmoor
Windsor
Yass
There’s an important message around
‘Choice & Control’ that needs to be
strongly pushed and explained at every
opportunity. Here’s the message; to be
effective and truly meaningful ‘choice
and control’ only works when information
exists that informs the choices!
Mums and dads with offspring about to
move into employment need to know
that there are some providers that
simply don’t enable movement to open
employment – check out these figures click here
(Note: blank space means a number
less than 20)
The outcome rates are the figures you
should take into account first – these are
the jobs that last. You will soon realise
that there are significant differences and
that these differences relate directly to
how effective each service provider is.
Jobs found is your next important marker
– no point in attending a program that
rarely finds jobs, no matter how long
those jobs might last – you need to be
with an efficient provider.
You are only young once has never been
truer than when applied to people with
disability – this is the time to use the
skills learned in school – don’t listen to
promises, look for actual examples that
prove or disprove claims.
Hopefully you will be able to use this
information to exercise control based on
informed choice.
Desperately Seeking Job Seekers
Author - Ann Bolch
Do you know anyone with a disability who would like a job?
Some NOVA links
Interview Questions: Tell me about yourself
Steven Last - www.letsgetworking.com.au
Tell me about yourself. How would you answer this ?
Watch our latest
video on NOVA’s
Youtube channel
This is often one of the first question in an interview. It’s there to get you talking because it’s
easy for you to answer, all you’re doing is talking about yourself. So, why can this question be
so stressful? The question is so open ended that it can be hard to know what information the
interviewer is looking for. What you say can engage the interviewers that are present, or cause
them to zone out. for this reason, it’s important to show how suitable for the position you are,
and not sell yourself short.
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You may have heard of an elevator pitch. An elevator pitch is a short summary used to provide
information about something and get the listener interested. That’s what you are doing here,
trying to get the interviewer interested in you. To do this there are three pieces of information
you should aim to communicate when answering this question. Your background, what you
can do, and why you want this job?
What’s news at
Can-Do-Ability?
If so, put them in touch with NOVA Employment! NOVA is a disability employment
service that finds award-wage work for people with disability in the general
community.
NOVA now has offices in Bowral, Tahmoor, Yass and Goulburn and is desperately
seeking job seekers with disability to fill the roles they have already found with
willing local employers.
To date, NOVA has secured over 25 jobs in Bowral and Tahmoor alone. Outlet
Manager, Michelle Hira, said she is pleased to see that the NOVA brand is already
respected in the area, through their advertising on billboards, radio and TV.
Want some great
employment tips?
‘But what a lot of people don’t know is that we partner with both the job seeker
and the employer to ensure we match the prospective employee to the role and
the business,’ Michelle said. ‘We also provide strong onsite job support, which
means the new worker fits readily into the workplace. It’s a win-win-win, for the job
seeker, the employer and NOVA, too.’
So far, Michelle has found positions in industries such as hospitality, retail,
agriculture, cleaning, warehousing, recreational facilities and the auto industry.
The type of people NOVA is looking for to fill the roles, includes those who are
willing to work and open to trying new things. A positive attitude also helps
because starting work can be tiring when you’re not used to it so it’s important to
dig deep until you start to reap the benefits of more money, more social standing
and something meaningful to do with your day.
Michelle said that it’s OK to feel unsure when you haven’t had a job or been
unemployed for a while. ‘That’s what NOVA is here for. We’re here to walk the
journey with you.’
It’s important to make sure your
answer is concise. It’s easy to get
carried away when answering
this question in an attempt to be
thorough, but interviewers are
not interested in your life story.
Try to keep your response short,
only a couple of minutes at most.
Remember this question is only the
first of many. You can discuss things
in greater detail later on, for now
just summarise everything to get
them interested.
It can be difficult to know what information the interviewer is really after, because the question
is open ended. Do they want to know about the professional you, meaning your education,
work history, and skills? Or, are they asking about your personality, what do you like, what
don’t you like? The answer is somewhere in between. They want to see some of your
personality, but in how it relates to the job. You can find the skills that are important to the
employer by reading through the job description.
Much of the information in your answer is probably going to come from your resume, but you
need to make sure you aren’t repeating your resume or cover letter, word for word. When
talking about what you can do, it’s no time to be modest. If you have the skills the interviewer is
looking for, or skills that are relevant to the job, tell them.
For the full blog, video and many more great tips - click here
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NOVA Transition- Your ticket to work
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j ob mat c h
NOVA Employment - Focus On Ability
www.novaemployment.com.au
INDUSTRY VISIT HAS ROUSE HILL TRAINEES
BLOOMING
Rouse Hill Transition
It was all roses for the Rouse Hill NOVA Transition trainees on a recent
industry visit to Flowers for Everyone in the Rouse Hill Town Centre.
novaemployment.com.au
Ph: 02 8886 5800
Fax: 02 9833 2499
novatraining.com.au
Ph: 02 88865800
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transition.com.au
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Fax: 02 9833 2499
deafjobs.com.au
Ph: 02 4632 3300
F: 02 4625 5955
TTY: 02 4625 8395
Industry visits are just one of the ways that NOVA
trainees learn about what’s really involved in the world of
work. Now we have a much better understanding about
careers in floristry – and whether or not that’s something
we are interested in.
The Manager, Rebecca, and staff member Elizabeth
were wonderful and taught us so much about the art of
floristry and becoming a florist, as well as budgeting and
business.
We had a store tour, and the staff demonstrated how
to do flower arrangements: stems are trimmed to the
same length and bouquets are set up in a rotating spiral.
Leaves are removed to prevent bacteria from growing
when they’re in water. Sometimes florists use glitter to
decorate flowers, or even inject dye!
Florists have to meet sales targets and plan ahead to order enough flowers. The
Rouse Hill store gets deliveries three times a week. Independent florists have to go
to the flower market at 2am!
Most of the flowers are grown overseas (e.g. in India, Japan, Thailand and Africa),
then boxed up and sent to Australia by plane. Florists store flowers in the fridge
storeroom at 7°C. The water is changed three times a week to stop bacteria growing
and spoiling the flowers.
We learned that bouquets are priced per stem. One we saw was valued at $70.
Being a florist is more physically demanding than you might think: you have to stand
all day for 9 or 10 hours, lift heavy things, and your hands can get strained and
stressed from thorns and stripping off leaves.
The best way to learn to be a florist is through a traineeship, so you have hands-on
work plus study at TAFE. You have to learn the common names and botanical names
of flowers. It takes one to two years to become qualified.
At the end of our tour, we were each given a rose!
Head Office
50 Chapel St
St Marys NSW 2760
Ph: 02 8886 5800
Fax: 02 9833 2499
www.novaemployment.com.au